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BLUEJAY LIVES IN WOODS
Hawks Owls and Other Birds Are
Teased and Tormented by These
Noisy Birds
The bluejay likes best to live In
thick woods but It often comes Into
open fields orchards and near dwell
Inge In search of food When It dis-
covers you It assumes a proud and
angry air of conceit and defiance
The bluejay’s upper parts are pur-
plish blue The lower parts are purplish-gray
The wings and tall are
' bright blue with black bars The tall
feathers are tipped with white It has
crested head
The bluejay builds lta nest about
twenty feet above ground It la made
of twigs and fine roots From four to
alz eggs are laid They are of a green
iak drab color flecked with brown
Doubtless the bluejay helped to
name Itself as Its common utterance
is a long drawn "Jay Jay jay” This
cry with the bright blue color has
given it its name
While the Jay sings no song It is
able to imitate the calls of other
birds by which means it often at-
tracts them It likes to tease and
torment the owl and especially the lit-
tle sparrow hawk This is done by
imitating the cry of a wounded bird
which draws the hawk near Then
several Jays will dart at the hawk
squealing and frolicking about in
great glee Sometimes the play ends
in a tragedy for the hawk pounces
upon one of them to the dismay of
the others Jays may be caged and
tamed like crows and some writers
say they can be taught to utter words
—‘‘Bird Studies" by Herman C De
Groat
A Word to the Wise
The proverbial advice "Cobbler
stick to your last" had an opposite
exemplification in the following anec-
dote for which Zion’s Advocate is re-
sponsible A colored man was brought before
a police Judge charged with stealing
chickens He pleaded guilty and re-
ceived sentence when the Judge asked
bow it was he managed to lift those
chickens right under the window of
their owner’s house when there was a
dog in the yard
"Hit wouldn't be of no use Judge”
said the culprit "to try to ’splaln dls
thing to you all Ef you was to try
It like as not you would git yer hide
full o’ shot an’ git no' chickens nei-
ther Ef you want to engage In any
rascality Judge yo’ bettah stick to
de bench whar yo’ am familiar”
Barber Shops In China
Since the Chinese revolution a great
many Chinese have had their cues cut
off and this has led U the opening of
a large number of barber shops
throughout the far east wherever Chk
nese are located says an exchange
Several progressive business men of
Singapore anticipating this imported
a large number of American barber
chairs and they are now unable to
get supplies quickly enough It has
also been learned that the Chinese in-
sist on having American hair clippers
and refuse all other makes offered
It would seem that American manu-
facturers ofjbarbers’ supplies should
experience a large increase in their
Oriental trade
The Marvel of It
"There is one thing in life which al-
ways struck me as queer”
"What is that?"
“While so few are successful in look-1
ing for an opening almost every one
can find himself in a hole"
A Diagnosis
"What’s the matter with your hus-
band Mrs Mixeyt”
"The doctor says he’s got a bad at-
tack of ammonia"
“Then I guess it’s apt to be fatal
for it’s bound to take his breath”
Easy
“I put the wrong couples together
at that dinner and I don’t know what
to do about my mistakes"
"Why re-pair them”
The nearest some people ever come
to getting close to nature Is to sit
In a palm room
f A Large
Package
Of Enjoyment —
Post
T oasties
Served with cream milk
or fruit — fresh or cooked
Crisp golden-brown bits
of white com — delicious
and wholesome —
A flavour that appeals to
young and old
“The Memory Lingers
Sold by Grocers
Paatum Ccrl Compaay T iillwt
BattU Creek Mick
LIBERAL DRY FARM GARDENS
One to Two Acres Will Give Varied
and Healthful Diet and Cut Down
Living Expenses
The dry-farmer should 4 plant a lib-
eral garden I believe from my exper-
iences that a kitchen garden of one
and one-half to two acres will not
only give a more varied and healthful
diet but actually cut down the living
expenses of the average family from
$100 to $300 writes J B Barber in
the Dakota Farmer '
My garden of 1911 was broken from
the virgin sod from six to nine Inches
deep It was situated next to the rlV'
er and 40 Inches above it so you can
readily see there was no chance for
sub-irrigation soil sandy loam over
a gumbo hardpan at a depth of about
two feet
I planted two-thirds acre of pota-
toes April 12th breaking the ground
six incheu deep and placing the pota-
toes (cut to about two eyes) in each
third furrow and next to the square
side so the next furrow would Just
break over them This insures even
and uniform stand Usually the early
planted potatoes do the best here the
very best ones I have grown being
planted March 27th although it is
very probable that in a season like
1911 later planting would hays given
equal If not better results
April 15th I begat to plant small
seeds such as onions beets carrots
salsify parsnips spinach radish ruta-
baga turnip etc ' Practically no pre-
cipitation fell from the melting of the
snow March 1st to 10th until May
15th when we were favored by heavy
rain On May 24 I reworked half of
the onion land and planted to pop-
corn On May 26th I set two dozen
each of cabbage and tomato plants
and more cabbage later on I planted
a few hills of melon and squash May
15th also cucumbers Had to replant
part of these later owing I believe
to mice taking the seed Getting oc-
casional light rains from this time on
all the varieties grew and produced
well and while the results would not
perhaps be called wonderful they
were very satisfactory and not only
furnished an abundance of vegetables
throughout the season but also put in
the cellar something like 60 bushels
of potatoes 15 bushels of table beets
a sack of carrots two each of turnips
and rutabagas several of onions some
salsify and cabbage also sailed down
a keg of cucumbers for pickles I had
between 100 and 200 melons of each
variety Squashes while they pro-
duced abundantly were a worthless
mixture Beans were omitted from the
seed order so had none if I except
the Syrian peas which are great pro-
ducers here
From one pound of seed of the Gold-
en Bantam sweet corn I had corn to
use for six weeks (not small quanti-
ties either) besides giving consider-
ably away Also produced 12 quarts
of select shelled seed in addition
Of onions the Southport Red Globe
Is my favorite and my experience
would lead one to believe they could
be profitably produced in a commer-
cial way upon the dry farm There is
no patent on my way of growing
onions they were simply drilled In-
to a deeply-inverted sod which had
been well worked down and after-
wards kept clean frequently going
through them with a fine-tooth hand
rake
Carrots seem the best adapted to
dry-land conditions of the root crops
though I had rutabagas measuring 25
inches in circumference Plant plenty
of these and the old cow will willing-
ly help you dispose of the surplus
next winter ’
RAISING CORN AND ALFALFA
Two Crops That Do Not Require Much
Attention Will Greatly Relieve
Overworked Farmer
(By DR J H WORST President of
North Dakota Agricultural College)
The more thorough tillage recom-
mended cannot be had under any sys-
tem of single cropping without more
added expense for teams and men than
conditions warrant The farmers are
working hard enough already bi-tthey
are spreading their energies over too
much territory To remedy this a con-
siderable portion of each farm should
be devoted to corn and alfalfa two
crops that do not require attention
during the early days of spring when
email grains should be planted By
thus lessening the area to be seeded
by small grains more time can be de-
voted to Its better tillage without In-
creasing the number of teams or men
to do the work Moreover -corn and
alfalfa are splendid wood killers
The frequent cultivation of the corn
conserves moisture as well while the
alfalfa lowers the temperature when
hot winds blow Both imply the feed-
ing and breeding of live stock which
acts as an Insurance against total loss
of Income when wheat falls as ’ it
sometimes will from one cause or an-
other and moreover the fertility they
leave on the land will maintain its
productive power In fact a farm is
hardly a farm without live stock nor
is a farmer a real farmer who does
not keep live stock on his farm
Culture of Alfalfa
The culture of alfalfa can only be
successful under careful and Intelli-
gent cultivation or In other words
high-class farming In the dry-farming
sections alfalfa is now successful-
ly grown Under the Irrigation sys-
tem the crop is a sure and abundant
one In the Atlantic states the great-
est returns have only been secured
by those following careful prepara-
tion of ground heavy fertilizing and
best method of harvesting and feeding
the crop
WANTED INCENTIVE
' She — Would you save me If I should
Start to drown?
He — 8ure If your father Is well
rated
HANDS CRACKED AND BLED
St Clair Mo — "My trouble began
about fifteen years ago It wag what
some claimed eczema The form the
disease worked under was a breaking
out with watery blisters on my hands
which would then dry and scale and
then would follow the trouble of
cracking and bleeding also Itching
and hurting My bands were disfig-
ured at the time and sore The trou-
ble was very annoying and disturbed
my sleep This last February It was
ever so much worse than before I
did not do all my work on account of
the condition of my hands I could
not put them in water without mak-
ing them worse I tried a lot of home
remedies also salves and liniments
that claimed to be a cure for the
trouble but I did not obtain a cure
"At last I saw the advertisement for
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment I sent
for a sample I thought they would
cure so I sent for a fifty-cent box of
Cutlcura Ointment and some Cutl-
cura Soap A doctor advised me to
keep ahead with the Cutlcura Soap
and Ointment and they cured me com-
pletely No trace of the trouble re-
mains” (Signed) Mrs Mary Taylor
Mar 29 1912
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world Sample of each
free with 32-p Skin Book Address
post-card "Cutlcura Dept I Boston’
Sparrow Sets House Ablaze
An English sparrow was the cause
of three houses catching fire at Law-
renceburg Ind recently and had It
not been for the prompt work of the
neighbors and friends all would have
been destroyed The sparrow was
building a nest under the eaves of the
home of Mrs Mary Webber and it
picked up a long cotton string from a
pile of rubbish that had just been
burned With the burning string in
its beak the sparrow flew to the roof
of Mrs Sophia Shafer’s house then
to Otto McCright’s house and then to
the roof of Emanuel Wuest’s home
where it dropped the burning string
A fire started in the shingles of each
building Each was extinguished by
neighbors before much damage was
done
The Cannibals Need Food
An officer of the French colonial
army brought a letter from the chief
of a group of missionaries in the
southern Islands of the Pacific not
long ago which winds up as follows:
“I regret -to tell you that our little
company can do little against the fa-
naticism of these poor wretches
Moreover famine is ravaging the
country for the harvest has been de-
stroyed Therefore the dispatch of
more missionaries has become ur-
gent” — La Petite Republique
Too Much of a Good Thing
“I was very happy” said the profes-
sor “when afer years of wooing she
finally said ’Yes’ ”
"But why did you break the engage-
ment so soon after?” asked his friend
“Man it wag she that dissolved it”
"Really?” said his friend “How did
that happen?”
"It was due to my accursed absent-
mindedness When a few days later
I called at her home I again asked
her to marry me
No Concern
"Mr Mips must be a singularly pure
and upright man”
"Why do you think be is unusually
so ?”
"Somebody told him there were
well-defined reports that a Burns de-
tective had been operating secretly
In the neighborhood he frequents and
he said it was nothing to him”
Cause of the Delay
"Strange those two nations do not
declare war”
"They are haggling about what per-
centage each is to get of the moving
picture receipts”
After Dark
"Honest as the day Is long eh?”
"Absolutely But you’d better keep
your chicken coop locked"
Some people spend their lives In try-
ing to acquire money to spend
Never trust your secrets to the malls
—or the females either
IjJsSLtfti
H ¥ur lo fluttering tr wtik woo “RNOVINC” Made by Van
MAST TREES FOR THE CROWN
Mark of thg Broad Arrow Waa
Placed on Pinas In tha Plymouth
Colony
In the provincial charter of 1691
under which the Flymouth colony and
the province of Maine were united
with Massachusetts it waa provided
that all trees of the diameter of 24
Inches and upward of 12 Inches from
the ground growing upon land not
heretofore granted to any private per-
son should be reserved to the crown
for the furnishing of masts for the
royal navy Harper’s Weekly ob-
serves A surveyor general of woods was ap-
pointed to see that this provision of
the charter was carried Into effect
Near the coast all white pines of suit-
able dimensions were marked with the
‘broad arrow” — three cuts through the
bark with an ax like the track of a
crow This was the king’s mark
Long after the revolution had oblit-
erated the royal authority men who
had been taught In boyhood to re-
spect the king’s mark hesitated to cut
uoh trees
In felling a tree it waa necessary
to "bed it” to prevent its breaking
This was done by cutting the small
growth and placing small trees across
the hollow so that there should be
no strain upon one section more than
upon another when the monster pine
struck ground
The mast was hauled out of the
woods on one strong sled whether in
winter or summer and so many oxen
were required that the hind pair were
often choked is- crossing a hollow be-
ing hung up In their yoke by the pull-
ing of those ahead of them
A mast hauling was a great event
and everybody within walking dis-
tance came to see It
RELIEF
The Editor — Well there’s hardly
any chance of our going to war with
Japan
The Reporter — I’m glad of that I
never could spell those Japanese
names
Couldn’t Happen to Them
Mike got a Job moving some kegs
of powder and to the alarm of his
foreman was discovered smoking at
his work
'Je-ru-sa-lem!” exclaimed the fore-
man “Do you know whaf happened
when a man smoked at this Job some
years ago? There was an explosion
that blew up a dozen men”
"That couldn’t happen here” re-
turned Mike calmly
"Why not?”
“ ’Cause there’s only you and me”
was the reply” — Everybody’s Maga-
zine Polar Exploration
North polar exploration had attract-
ed the attention of adventurous and
ambitious men for nearly 400 years
before Peary reached the top of the
world ' Search for the south pole has
always proved less attractive and
only during the last 140 years have
explorers turned their attention toward
the goal recently reached by Amund-
sen Where He Balked
‘She has a terrible time with
husband
Yse she Is driving him to drink"
"Nonsense! If she was driving him
to drink things would be different
she’s trying
way”
to drive him the other
Too Much Renunciation
“How foolish you women are” said
Mr Nagg to his better half "You
don’t catch men doing such things as
Joining ‘Don’t Worry’ clubs”
“Of course not” snapped Mrs Nagg
"Men couldn’t give up the pleasure of
worrying their wives”
Remarkable Financiering
“Figures don’t lie”
“Don’t they? Here’s an Item from
New York that says a policeman there
saved $80000 In a month from his sal-
ary of $2800 Those figures must lie
for they won’t stand”
Patriotism
Marks — So your Italian barber re-
fused to shave you Why was that?
Parks — J told him I’d Just had a
Turkish bath
There Isn’t much doing in the self-
love line when a man loves himself
as he does his neighbors
People who build castles In the air
are never sure of their ground
He— Isn’t your bsthlng suit rather
loud?
8be — It has to be loud I’m trying
to mash a deaf old millionaire
Everybody In Hard Luck
Suddenly he stepped up to a gent!
man who was waiting for the train
and tapping him lightly on the shoul-
der said: "Excuse me but did you
drop a five-pound note?” at the same
time holding out in his hand the ar-
ticle The’ gentleman questioned gazed a
moment at the note assumed an anx-
ious look made a hasty search of his
pockets and said: "JVhy so I did and
I hadn't missed It" holding out an
eager band
The elderly hunter took the name
and address of the loser and putting
the note in his pocket turned away
"Well” said the other "do you want
It all as a reward?”
"Oh I did not find one” remarked
the benevolent one with another
beam "but it struck me that in a big
place like London there must bo a
quantity of money lost and upon in-
quiry I found that you are the one
hundred and thirty-first man who lost
a five-pound note this morning" — Lon-
don Answers
Orphanages In Turkey
There are-22 orphanages in the
I Turkish empire conducted by Ameri-
cans enrolling 3000 inmates In con-
nection with these orphanages an In-
dustrial work has sprung up which
gives employment to over 10000 peo-
ple In addition to the orphans The
work is largely done by the widows
and orphans and includes rug and
1 lace-maklng various forms of em-
broidery and other domestic work
The product of these institutions find
a market abroad
Opening Up Lhasa
Lhassa which is the capital of
Tibet for generations was known as
the Forbidden City because of Its
political and religious exclusiveness
In 1904 a British armed expedition
opened the mysterious old city Pre-
vious to that time practically every
European traveler had been stopped
in his efforts to reach the place The
population In Lhasa Is about 35000 -
Diplomacy
"Mrs Jinks always has such a good
time when she goes anywhere How
does she manage to convey the Impres-
sion she Is a widow?”
'She always makes an allusion
to her tardy husband as ’my late hus-
band’” Comparative Possession
"I have an abstract theory”
“That’s nothing I’ve got a concrete
cellar”
A woman seldom hits anything she
alms at especially If she -throws her-
self at a man’s bead
One way to become popular Is to let
other people Impose on you
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children and see that It
Bears the
Signature of
In Use For Over 30'Years
Children Cry for 1 letchers Castona
Sounds So
"How oddly that man cleaning the
machinery talks”
"How do you mean?”
“I heard him telling his helper to
save the waste”
The woman who cares for a clean
wholesome mouth and sweet breath
Will find Paxtine Antiseptic a Joy for-
ever At druggists 25c a box or sent
postpaid on receipt of price by The
Paxton Toilet Co Boston Mass
And many a girl who starts out with
the intention of making a name for
herself winds up by turning the job
over to some man
TO DBIVE OrT MALARIA
AND BUILD IP THE SYSTEM
Take the Old Standard GROVKS TASTBLUSS
CULUL TONIC Too know what you are taking
The forma la 1ft plainly printed on every botiJe
bo wing it Is simply Quinine and Iron In a taste lens
form ftnd tbe most effectual form For grown
people and chi Idren 60 cent
Ideals In America are almost as high
as the cost of living
Mrs Wlnslow Soothing Syrup tor Children
teething softens the gums reduces hiflamma
tion allays pain cures wind colio 25o a bottle
More often It is the man who gets
justice that kicks
Vlaat-Manaflaid Drag Co Momphia Tonn Prtco 100
CRITICAL TIME
OF wears LIFE
From 40 to 50 Years of Ago
How It May Do Passed
in Safety
Odd Va:— “I am enjoying bettef
health than I have for 20 years and 1
believe I can safely
say now that I am a
well woman I waa
reared on a farm and
had all kindsof heavy
work to do which
caused the troubles
that came on me la-
ter For five yean
during the Change of
Life I waa not abla
to lift a pail of wa-
ter I had hemor-
rhages which would last for weeks and I
was not able to sit up in bed I suffered
a great deal with my back and was so
nervous I could scarcely sleep at night
and I did not do any housework for three
years
“Now I can do as much work as
any woman of my age in the county
thanks to the benefit I have received
from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound I recommend your remedies
to all suffering women”— Mrs Martha
L Holloway Odd Va
No other medicine for woman’s ills has
received such wide-spread and unquali-
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medicine which has such a record of
success as has Lydia E Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound For more than 80
years it has been the standard remedy
for woman’s ills s
If yon have the slightest doubt
that Lydia 12 Pinkliam’s Vegeta-
ble Compound will help you write
to Lydia EPinkliam Medicine Co
(confidential) Lynn Mass for ad-
vice Your letter w ill be opened
read and answered by a woman
and held In strict confidence
Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine times in ten when the liver is
right the stomach and bowels are right
CARTER’S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS
gently but firmly
pel a lazy liver
do its duty
Cures Con-
stipation In-
digestion Sick
Headache
and Distress After Eating
SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE SMALL PRICE
Genuine must bear Signature
PARKER’S
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Cleanoef and beautifies the hIf
Promotes a laxurieot growth
Never Falls to Restore Oray
Hair to it Youthful Color
Prevent hair fnlitnir
IHV and Sloo nt Iirarrfwts
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anything advertised in its col-
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ask forrefusing all substitutes or imitations
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